Hear and understand, ye auditors of this book,[72] the true understanding of these words, and what that is that this book saith, in so many places: that a soul naughted hath naught of will, nor naught may have, nor naught may will. The formation of the lay-societies of devout people was beginning and had, in South Germany, made considerable progress, but the Mirror belongs to the end of the thirteenth century, and is therefore before the birth of the Deventer and Windesheim groups. MS. most. Cf. Wor or wit or wist = know; wittance or witting = knowledge. For your will sufficeth to your Beloved, and here he sendeth you word by me, that ye may be certain of this that I shall tell you. [332] For no more than God may sin, who cannot will it, no more may I sin if my will will it not, such freedom hath my sum[333] given of his pure bounty, by love.. For all the orders of angels have not one same name if any would name their greatest name and yet be they all angels. Contents Prologue . That is, saith Love, that such a soul that is naughted, hath so great inward knowing, by the virtue of faith, that she is thus called in her inwardness to sustain that which faith hath ministered to her of the might of the Father, of the wisdom of the Son, and of the goodness of the Holy Ghost. And this it behoveth me to be, if I will have my own; otherwise I may not have it. Division XII, chap. O ye that shall read this book, do ye as David saith in the psalter : Gustate et videte[15] that is to say Taste and see. We only know what he tells us in his simple and devout Prologue. [87] And this [also, namely] that her will, is naughted in respect to her sufficiency, which was never given nor never shall be given; that is the meaning of willing the will of God, as it is said before, then by this understanding this soul willeth all and she willeth naught. In view of this no further analysis is needed. This soul, saith Love, is so arrayed with the clothings of this passing peace wherein she liveth and endureth, and was, and is, and shall be, without her being. Margaret Porette (circa 1248/1250-1310) was a French-speaking mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of spirituality dealing with Divine Love. The same thing happens (in suo modo) in a manner, in the union of man with God, as in that which unites the Son substantially with the Father, and the Father with the Son. This is truth; doubt ye not, lady, in this of me. But all-might, all-wisdom, and all-goodness, all-glory, all grace, all-sweetness, all-virtues, all-victories, all-honours, all-bliss, all-joy and all magnificence, Lord, worship, laud, praise and magnify you everlastingly without end. With the cult of the Magdalen flourishing in the Low Countries and across Europe, Porete adopted the saint to concretize her doctrine of the . Who was the humble and spiritually minded M.N., who undertook the work of translation, and whose careful glossing in the direction of orthodoxy seems to have redeemed the English version from the fate of its original? This I shall tell you how and for why and in what? The boldness and humour of the Fleming seems to have pleased his censors, and their verdict appears to have satisfied him. This is sooth, saith Love, for all others than these make answer through want of simplicity, but only these naked [souls] forget and have naught to answer., This soul, saith Love, doeth no more work for God nor for herself, nor for her even-Christian, even as it is said before in this book. [95] And if they wist that others had more need than they, of thing which they have, they would not deny it them, though they were certain that never should grow wheat nor com nor other sustenance. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format. If his goodness give you this beholding, I unwill it not, it is that [which] it is. they say Nay. If they would [while yet] living be certified of their salvation? If I believed them, in such dread I should abandon this work, by their counsel. Reason, saith this soul, if I shall be loved without end, of the three Persons in Trinity, I have been loved of them already without beginning. This that she is, saith Love, in her knowing., Right sweet Holy Ghost, teach it us! They desire, indeed, worship, and sorry be they if men despise them, but they keep themselves from vainglory and from impatience that leadeth to death of sin. We say this, saith she, for the auditors of this book, that God loveth better [where there is] the more of himself [in a man], than [where there is] less of himself.[66], Oh, there is no less of himself, saith this soul, there is but all, and this I may say, and soothly say., I say, saith Love, that though this soul had all the knowing, the love, and the hearing, that ever was given or ever shall be given, of the divine Trinity, it should be naught in comparison with that which she loveth and shall love; nor this love may not be attained nor reached.. No doubt the form of the dialogue between personified abstract qualities was not as familiar in England as in France, and the subtleties of the scholastic mind, though equally represented at Oxford and Cambridge, may have been further removed from the English Charterhouses and those who perused these treatises. She hight[244] pure heavenly spirit of peace, for she sitteth in the deepness of the valley; there she seeth the highness of the mountain, and, then, in a state of faith,[245] she gazeth upon the mountain of highness, that it may not there downfall. The soul of such love, saith Love himself, may say thus to virtues: I take leave of you. To which virtues this soul many a day hath been servant., I assent. Never had she will according to the senses, nor work of spirit, but [she had] the will of the Deity in work divine. Also these souls have no proper will[53] nor desire, they have wholly planted it in God, so that they may nothing will nor desire, but God willeth in them and maketh them to do his will. Sweet Beloved, I am naught. And through this I am the salvation of creatures and the glory of God.. The translators of this Modern English version rely primarily on the French, yet take other medieval translations into account. think how these souls endure in their wit! saith Discretion. As the soul mounts, the same panorama is unfolded again and again, but the point of view continually changes; and with each step of the ascent our eye has command over a wider landscape. God is divine; so have I a being that is divine., When this soul, saith Love, is thus drawn out of herself, without herself, by God, for him, in him, in this divine work, she cannot never work works of charity of human body;[239] nor can any who attains to this work., O understand holily, saith this soul, the sweet words of Love, for these words be hard to understand for them that desire the meaning of the gloss., This is sooth, saith Love, for work of creatures may not be compared to divine work made of God in creatures, of his bounty, for creature., O God, saith this soul, how far is the country of the Perished and the country of the Marred from the country of freeness and of fulfilled peace, there where the Settled dwell!, That is sooth, saith Love, and I shall say one word soothly, saith this soul, against Will, in which the perished and the marred dwell, that lead life of perfection. understand it, ye that hear this, if ye may! And then love, of her courtesy, worketh in these souls and maketh them cease from that first labour; [yet] not from the deed,[49] to leave the work undone for evermore, but from that manner of labour in doing of it, as thus. But none may be fed with this heavenly meat that in desire dwelleth., These souls, saith Love, govern a country, they be well above and all without them. She finds what she seeks, and by her own activity procures the spiritual consolation she desires, and does the work herself but it is not, The author exhausts the snares into which the soul may fall by desires. He warns against spiritual curiosity seeking even in the explicit writing of his own book for knowledge which is to come from God alone. And if I had as great torments as he is of might, I should love better these torments, if they came of him, than I should glory that came not of him, [even were I] to have it everlastingly. It were to such souls a default of innocence and encumbering of peace, wherein this soul resteth from all things. But it might be so, and if it were so, that by a game of change he might will this and that he did will it with all his will, [then] I answered thus, and said to him: O Lord, if it might be that this change might everlastingly endure in fact, as it is in supposition; I love you, for you and of you. This book saith thus, that none knoweth these souls but God that is within their souls. [190], Nothing, saith Love, she willeth naught. That is to say, during the time of that usage; for indeed every usage standeth for the time of its working; not that the soul is continually in them, for that may not be. This is to say, in sooth, that they neither will nor not-will, any of these prosperities nor any of these adversities; for these souls have no will but [for the] thing that God willeth in them. That is right, saith Love, for her will is ours, she hath passed the Red Sea, and her enemies therein left. ABSTRACT. Oh, for God, behold the sinful repentant Magdalen, what shame or glory had she, that God said to her, that she had chosen the better part and the most sure, and that her Beloved said it should never be taken from her. Begin we here, saith Love,at the commandments of Holy Church, by which every creature may in this book learn wisdom by the help of God, that commandeth us to love him with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our virtue, and ourselves as we ought and our even-Christian[33] as ourselves. They follow [after] to attain a thing that is impossible, but I excuse them for their intention. If I say great things or mean these things, or though I have by all, of all, in all, my full sufficiency, my Beloved is great, who great gifts giveth and maketh it all at his will. And these folks, that we speak of, that be, and shall be, wit it well, know altogether that they be of the lineage. Now answer this; unless he help him then, when shall he help him? A play on words, the most, a word for wine, ale; also, as will occur again later, used for God who is the, These souls are all one in all things, and equable in all things, and they are not troubled about their condition whatever may befall them, forthynken not repent of, are displeased at; Bod. This book showeth by thoughts of partie,[353] by works of perfection, by demands of reason, that it behoveth us to draw unto us all the life that Christ Jesu himself led and preached to us, according to our power; for he said of far, thus: Whosoever believeth in me he shall do such works as I do and yet more greater shall he do. Ah, Lord, saith this soul, I am certain that I have nothing more availing than are my horrible faults for which faults you have suffered death, to give me life. Therefore is she Mary. Download The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Taking a dark turn, this important New Zealand poet explores the legacy of a heretic who was burned at the stake in 1310 for writing a thesis called Simple Annihilated Souls. Now hath the divine bounty put free will by pure divine goodness in her who is but in evils, that is, in all wickedness enclosed. And which- ever of these sisters falleth to me, I reck not, whether it be Righteousness, or Truth, Mercy or Pity. So they stand to attend [upon], and wait to follow the Lords work, who is sovereign master; for if they do the contrary, truly, it will unrest them. Methley to the 'Mirror of Simple Souls'" (357#382). And that she is less than naught under them, without any comparison, as between herself and them, so much evil is of her [nature] and of her works. To you be the glory, and to us the merit. Now I pray you, for the Contemplatives, saith Reason, who always desire to increase in knowledge of the divine bounty., They be ill constrained, Reason,[58] saith Love, to that which thou sayest.. I have said, saith the Holy Ghost, that I shall give to this soul all that I have given, saith the Holy Ghost. For more details on the dependency of Pili on the work of Cordoni, and consequent to that, of Porete, see Cargnoni. . Reason, saith Love, why do such souls desire these things aforesaid, since it is so, that God is over all, without that, as well as with all that. O ladies, nothing ye say, saith this soul that this book doth write. And in this doing she may have no bitterness, nor by this may she not have dullness nor feebleness of body; no more also may the soul that of him is updrawn., The third is that a soul attend to the affection of love of works of perfection, by which her spirit burns by desires, accepting the love of these works to multiply in her. For by right, the contemplatives should pass the state of scholars, as masters of divinity be passed schools. And then holdeth the soul that there is none higher life than to have this, of which she hath lordship; for love hath so greatly fed her with his delights that she wot not that God hath any greater gift nigh to give to the soul than this love, which Love, by love, hath within her spread. For no more be the angels encumbered to keep us than if they kept us not; neither is this soul [encumbered] any more by what she doth, than if she did it not. Who that asketh these free souls sure and peaceable, if they would be in purgatory? And also to make them have the more clear insight in divine understanding of divine love and declare themselves. [299] She wist not when she sought him, that God was all, by all, in all, she had not then sought him. It may well be that there be many fausets in a tun, but the most clear wine and the most fresh and profitable and the most delectable and the most inebriating without fail, is the wine of the sovereign fauset, of which none drinketh but the Trinity. This that I was then, is marring, for all those be marred that have anything of affection in spirit. As our ascent progresses the details of familiar buildings are less easily discerned, they are hidden in surrounding greenery, and that itself is merged in the plain, and the plain tends to merge into the hills, till at last range beyond range of hills fixes and stills our vision. These souls, that be such, cannot find the good nor the evil, nor have knowing of themselves to make judgement whether they be converted or perverted. If a king give to one of his servants that truly hath served him a great gift, by which the servant were rich all the days of his life after, and never [had] to do service more, why should a wise man marvel at this, or why should he blame the king for his gift, and the freedom of the gift?, Nay, saith Courtesy, a wise man marvelleth not of thing that is done, that pertaineth to be done, but alloweth it and praiseth it and loveth it; and if he marvel, he showeth in that, that he doeth that which he ought not to do. But this, that they save themselves by faith without works, and that they can no more work, it is not meant that they cease from all good works for evermore, and never do any work, but sit in sloth and idleness of soul and body; for those who take it so, they misunderstand it; but it is thus. Robert Stauffer, Ph.D. (2011 . Right as God is that is, without any beginning so have I been in his divine knowing, that I shall be without end. At my will, Reason, saith Love, who have turned her wholly to me., And what be ye, Love? saith Reason; be ye not a virtue with us, except that ye are above us?, I am God, saith Love. I dare not hear it. Thou wouldest have answers to these words aforesaid, and thou askest what it is? . 1451) died as vicar of Mount Grace, Charterhouse, in 1528. And so do the perished as the marred do. And it would be right, that I should have myself no more; this Right is written within the book of life. And then this I beheld, how the divine nature oned him for us to the nature of man in the person of God the Son. Whoever hath it [let him] keep it, for it is the most perfect gift that God giveth to creatures. . Of myself, saith this soul, and of mine even-Christian and of all the world, and of affection of spirit and of virtues, wherein I have been servant, by the care and control of reason. Therefore his eye beholdeth me. And of the martyrdom of will and love, CHAPTER II: How the affection of tenderness of love that the soul feeleth in life of spirit which she weeneth it to be in God, is in herself, and of the profit of naught witting, CHAPTER I: How this soul is in her highest perfection when holy church taketh no ensample of her. She would not grow discontented if she dwelt on his work, but it may arise if she centres on her own effort or life. This freedom, the highest state of the soul, implies a perfect union of will with God, so that the desires are transformed, and only that which pleases God is desirable. The Holy Ghost inspireth where he will and is marvellous in his creatures., Ah, Lord, saith this soul, ye have so much suffered for us and can so much work in us, by you, of you, for us, that these other works have taken their end in us, but that is right little refined. A curious point is that these MSS. Eh! Even in their hybrid forms, these modes were still tied to specific institutions of truth-telling, with particular participants, spheres of address, and manners of speaking. This lady seeketh no more of God, there is no more to do [about it]. Then showeth she the privities of her heart that maketh her very tender and to melt in sweetness of love and by concord of union whereby she is put in possession of these delights. This soul hath six wings as have the seraphins, and also she willeth nothing that cometh by means. Soothly of that Love that is Mistress of Knowing, not of that Love that is Daughter of Knowing, for she knoweth never; but of that Love that is Mother of the Knowing of Divine Light. Love in this book layeth to souls the touches of his divine works privily hid under dark speech, so that they should taste the deeper draughts of his love and drink. And she will not have her will, for she is naught and hath no will. Then, say I, that this is truth, that men may give me naught, whatever thing that it may be., And this complaint. MS. vilayn i.e., a matter of the law of villeins. Lord, ye be Father and Son and Holy Ghost, and I am feebleness, foolishness and wickedness. Since a small number of historians has recently expressed doubts about this identification, a fresh look at the evidence is warranted. What a sweet union is this, that I am drawn into the thing that I love more than me; thereby have I lost my name for loving, who so little may love! This identification of mystical union with the impoverishment of the soul is present also in Marguerite Porete's earlier spiritual allegory, the full title of which is The Mirror of simple annihilated souls and those who only remain in will and desire of love. My opinion became a foolishness to me, for besides that I thought to find my works, naught did I but lose. And how, Lord? saith Reason that to this cannot answer. Then came to me Righteousness, and asked me what sparing I would have of him or of thing that torment might do to me. I have not so much of being that may make me be of him. Beth rated it liked it Jan 11, A 15th-century manuscript of an English translation Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls "M. The Mirror of Simple Souls. An attempt has been made to retain as much as possible of the original, but it will be understood that exigencies of sense, of space, and of doctrinal expediency have modified what, in any case, does not claim to be a critical text. She is then under the work of cleanness, and above the work of charity. A place for taking pleasure, hence garden, orchard. Tell me., Ye were naught, saith Truth, before ye had anything forfeited to me, of this which I gave you; now ye be another, for ye be worse than naught, saith Truth, at all times, when ye have willed other than my will. This wot she, saith Love, for there she findeth him alway; for a thing must be found where it is. Understand ye lovers what this is., I have said, saith Love, that this soul is fallen of me into naught, and less than naught without number. And in the meantime that I most had them, Love made me hear and speak of him. Him so high and me so low, that I might no more from thence rise, nor help of myself have and that was best. These souls, saith love, live of knowing of love and of hearing. This is [the] continual usage of these souls without departing them [therefrom]: for knowing and love and magnifying dwelleth in them. note on with herself, p. 18 Here = attached to her own interests. Ye that be in being and stand without default, nothing ye say. This soul, saith Love, hath not held[266] doubt nor trust., Certain confidence, saith Love, and true agreement[267] to will only [and wholly] the divine ordering; thus it is that she is perfectly free.. The first was a Friar Minor of great name for life of perfection, men called him Frere John of Querayn; he said: We send you this by these letters of love, receive it for courtesy, for Love prayeth it you: to the worship of God and of them that be made free of God, and to the profit of them that be not [so], but, God willing, yet may be. He said soothly,[22] that this book is made by the Holy Ghost. I encumber myself with writing these words, but thus I take my recourse to come to my strength and succour and to my last crowning crown, of the being of which we have spoken of; which sitteth all in freedom, that is, when a soul resteth in pure naught without thought; for till then she may not be free., Ah God, saith Reason, what do they that be in being, above their thoughts?, They marvel themselves,[318] saith Love, of him that is in the mount of their mountain, and they abash themselves of the same, that is, of the deepness of their valley, by a naught thinking, which is shut and ensealed in the most pure and secret closet of this excellent soul. Thus she comprehendeth much and soon forgetteth. But none knew it, saith Love, but I alone. That is to say, that none may ascend but they only that be Gods sons by divine graces, of whom he said: This is my brother, my sister and my mother, that doth the will of God my Father.[384]. The Mirror of Simple Souls, here for the first time printed, came to light in 1911, when Mr. J. For in all things wherein she abandoneth judging, she maketh no judgement, except always for the best. Read More Christian mysticism In Christianity: Western Catholic Christianity continuing to disseminate her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls. IMPRIMATUR: Edm. The treatment is didactic and psychological; the author describes not his personal experience but the characteristic of a typical soul of these souls we will take one for all, to speak the more readily (I, vii). [210], O Lady Love, that all things maketh light, tell us, saith this soul, why they work in Virtues as well as the perished, and serve them, and feel and desire and run by burning of cutting desire in the work of the spirit? [117] And also she is drunk of the knowing of the divine bounty, by the pure grace of the Deity, of which she is always drunk, and of the beholding thereof, fulfilled with laud and hearing of divine love; not drunken of that which she hath drunk, but she is right drunk, and more drunk, of that which she never drank nor never shall drink.[118], Ah for God, Love, saith Reason, what is this to say, that this soul is drunk of that she never drank nor never shall drink? But our faith withsaith[83] all that and believeth verily and soothly, without any doubt, that it hath not whiteness nor taste nor smell, but [is] the precious body of our Lord Christ Jesu, very God and man. Then, the soul ought to die entirely, so that there dwell not in her neither colour, nor savour, nor smell of nothing that God forbiddeth in the Law. Of divine Love and of hearing a matter of the law of villeins,... 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